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So do we know why the devs hate CoV yet?

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More pictures coming...

Update on the gorgeous girl pit! I dropped her off at a dog grooming center last night that has many resources for adoption that do not include euthanasia. She has a micro chip but searches resulted in expired numbers and old data. She is very healthy, at least 2 years old and was seemingly well taken care of but lacks basic training so she will need an owner that can give some direct care over time.

As far as aggression, my labs are far more likely to be a problem than this girl, but again that comes down to responsible owners. I have no doubt that if she were to fight that she would be a tanker, she is a full bodied, short, saffy/red nose mix and is very strong; but she thinks she is a lap dog!

I didn't name her or call her anything as I didn't want to confuse her or bond! My dogs were already upset at my interaction with the beautiful girl.

When she is adopted out, the grooming shop promised to call and let me know the details. So I'll keep you posted.

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The Office should adopt her. The put a cape on her give her a superheoey name. Then she would be Trusted Canine Companion of the Freedom Phalnax.

Maybe it would even inspire the animation depatment to make some four legged models.

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Try VirtueUnited, Gum. You'll be silenced on entering (that's how it's set), but if you PM a moderator, they can unsilence you.

Might have more luck going to a zone appropriate for your level and asking in Broadcast, though. Or, you know. Search tool.

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How do you find a moderator of that Channel?

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Open your Friends tab, and click down to the VirtueUnited button; once the list opens, look for names with stars by them. Those are the mods.

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Are the moderators ever online? (Hopes moderatorscan be used as plural here)

I've had a character who's story is rather involved but on the surface she is a bit nutty. I've found it impossible for people to really take the initiative and delve deeper into why she is the way she is to say nothing of actually helping her.

ERm...Yes

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I have a great guide to teaming and what role each AT should be playing:

Tanker: Does the tanking.
Controller: Does the controlling.
Defender: Does the defending (of your team).
Scrapper: Does the scrapping.
Blaster: Does the blasting.
Kheldian: Does everything.

Thats usually what I go by.

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You forgot a few.

Brute: Tanks/scraps
Dominators: Dominate
Stalkers: Stalk and do secondary damage.
Corruptors: Defend and Blast
Masterminds: Do about everything.

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I have a great guide to teaming and what role each AT should be playing:

Tanker: Does the tanking.
Controller: Does the controlling.
Defender: Does the defending (of your team).
Scrapper: Does the scrapping.
Blaster: Does the blasting.
Kheldian: Does everything.

Thats usually what I go by.

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You forgot a few.

Brute: Tanks/scraps
Dominators: Dominate
Stalkers: Stalk and do secondary damage.
Corruptors: Defend and Blast
Masterminds: Do about everything.

Wow. I can actually see Data Storage space being wasted.

Dirty Rotten PVPers...I hated how they put off adding two zones Villain side to cater to them back in I9.

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Hopefully NCsoft will have the good sense not to meddle too much with CoX's proven success. Hopefully. Their recent negotiations with Sony Computer Entertainment though scares the crap out of me.

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Hrm. Maybe this is going to turn out like MxO Of course what made MxO great was the live event team. That was cut when they moved to Sony. It doesnt look like anything like that is being cut here. (Guess I'll leave my Suggestion to add a similar system to CoH off the suggestion board :/)

Of course they also completely redid the combat system when they went to sony. Same as tehy did with SWG. I don't know what it is with Sony liking to change core systems.

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My concern is that it'll turn into SWG all over again.

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I am an optimist on this score. The industry saw the player reaction to the shenanigans with SWG and I hope that something was learned.

Also, my personal opinion is that if anything, CoX will not get that kind of changes, but will be used as a cash cow to set up the rest of the franchise - whether this is MMO/single player games in different styles or even a sequel, where they go to town with crazy ideas good and bad.

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I agree 100% with spidermonster on this. Statesman left CoX over a year ago to help develop Marvell Online. Everyone else who has been working on CoX for the last (awesome) year is moving with the game to the new studio. Even grumpy, yet lovable BAB...

Any similarity between this news and SWG's "New Game Enhancement" debacle is, well, I just am not seeing it.

Cautiously optimistic...

-Buxley

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*rolls his eyes*

OK History Lesson. SWG Sucked form the start and sucked worse with each NGE they ever tried. It was never sold to another company.

MXO Was successful, if niche, at the start. Then it was sold to Sony and now sucks.

If we are going to compare these lets do it right. I don't believe we will have a MxO debacle here. NCsoft has made good money with CoX and I would imagine they don't want to change it now. Especially if they acquired the entire dev team.

CoX is also getting rather old. Odds are Cryptic was not wanting to spend the time and resources that would be eneded to update teh game or send the game to Version 2. Heck look at all the long standing problems we've had that have been outright ignored. Maybe Cryptic just enver wanted to spend the money to solve them. The Valentines day bug comes immediately to mind. New Hardware may well fix that immediately.

People like to throw out the 10% number when they talk about PvP. I'd throw out a 10% number when it comes to the hardcore RPer. The large majority of the playerbase is either uninterested or very casual aboth both styles of play. Right now Bases only really attract those two niche groups and the PvP side of it is so broken, especially concidering the insane cost, that it just isn't worth messing with.

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Bases are also the only place where you get empowerment stations. I'm surprised people aren't using those more.

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It's just not convenieant. I have one in our base. I'll grab teh knockback protection one once and again but its just to much of a hassle to try and work with when your plpaying more than solo.

Also I do RP Quite a bit. Again the Base turns out to be too much of a hassle. The base kick bug is problably the biggest problem. Also people tend to want to go out and play the game so we will RP before, during, and after missions.

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realistically if they dont bring it back there isnt much use for bases at all other then being a glorified storage shed for our stuff

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SG Bases is problably the devs greatest blunder. The bases never did much andd with the CoP not working I beleive they would jsut as soon get rid of Bases than try and do anything with them. Raiding is buggy and pointless. PvP never hit it off the way they expected it to and the entire nature of PvP seems to have eluded them when they coded the whole thing. Heck I recall Statsman once saying he never would expected people to go around blowing stuff up in a raid just so people would lose the prestige and salvage they earned. That is just Naive to the extreme.

PvEers have little use fo rthe base. a shortcut is all it is anymore. The CoP would be a big deal to a PvEer but they, for whatever reason, don't want to fix it. It's problably the PvP element that goes along with getting an IoP. Most people don't want to worry over that. Small SG's that only have like 10-15 people. Enough to do the Trial but nowhere near enough to try and defend their base constantly. It isnt for casual players or even dedicated PvE players.

Don't forget the Uncommon recipies that are requiring rare components to make. One of the Air burst ones do that and I've seen others.

Either make that recipie rare or remove the rare component.

I'm a bit confused. While the "major operations" seem to be over we've still been getting sporadic world events.

Are these uncommon world events something seperate, thats going to stay in the game, and this new invasions just a period of increased activity?

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...unless you're holding off the Council for the vampyrs and Warwolves

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I forgot to comment on this. Have I ever made mention of the Council so far? I've been avoiding the name for a reason.

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I know the 5th Column was mentioned in one episode. I thought the council was mentioned then but I could be misremembering. It was one of the early episodes.

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Yes, none of us are against new powersets, but we are against barring power sets from ATs because of their special effect.

I can understand barring Fire Blast from a scrapper, but not Fiery Melee...it does the same thing. (I'd probably give them the Brute version, however). About the only melee type that fire melee does not fit is Stalker because it would be a bit more flashy than a stealthy type might want.

Since Tanker and Scrapper are no longer stepping on each other's toes nearly as often, it would be very, very appreciated to see them share their power sets completely.

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Wont happen. that would involve increaseing the number of powersets avaialble to both AT's and thats something the devs dont want to do.

Besides if you do it for them you have to do it for Controllers and then for Defenders. Can you imagine the chaos that would ensue if Controllers suddenly got Cold Domination to go with Ice control?

Im kinda eh about the whole market thing. I think it could be better. It's better than nothing though. All in all 4 stars. You didnt get 5 stars because we still arent receiving new powersets (Yes I predict I10 will suck becasue of this as well. Suprise me)

I would be intrested in seeing what the numbers would look like if they ported sets that make sense to AT's the mysteriously do not have them.

Lump all buff sets together. All blast sets. All melee control whatever.

If they did put these sets in every possibly AT how many combinations would be possible for each AT?

Oh and What were the results of the poll? At the bottom of both it specifically said the results wouldnt be shown until the poll closed today and yet I can't even find the polls themselves.

So what are the results of the Poll?

Unless harmi9ng Loheniens will help in its develpoment in which case I can have a death ray ready in a few minutes.

The Hydra mission also has required temp powers. I think something more of this type of thing would be really cool. Player created missions is the way to go as far as I'm concerned. Official missions will always be great but player created stuff has limitless possibilities.

I'mn frankly elated that someone on the dev team even has a passing thought on this subject. It would add SO much.

I wluld love to be able to set up custom missions. I dont care about XP or rewards. Just something I can set up as a backdrop for some of the stories I do with my SG/VG. I'd love to set some missions up that are flavored to our own player created cannon. I wouldnt nesicerraly want it open to everyone since it would be out of context for everyone else.

I always wanted to try out that CCG but it was never in any stores. Do they still make sets?

Woohoo!